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Word: sheetings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dictaphone in the library where he wrote his book, Where I Stand. For recreation he likes to hunt (pheasant, quail, deer), play chess, take Glen fishing, go for long walks alone. He has few close friends outside his family, sees his father and brothers often (brother William is a sheet-metal worker, brother Elmer a grocer, brother Arthur a state employee). He has supported himself with articles and lectures (fee: $600 to $1,000), earned more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: STASSEN | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...Beware the servants of Armstrong; for they poreth mightily over the Racing Form and the Tip Sheet, but they heedeth not the spirit of the horse on that day nor that which the horse hath eaten at Breakfast; and I say verily they will have their reward...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Chinese Dopester Tells All | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

...road company was still going strong after four years, and a London production was sold out months in advance. Oklahoma! had been seen by more than 8,000,000 people. The show's music had sold more than 500,000 albums, more than 2,000,000 copies of sheet music (both figures are records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Birthday Girl | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Miracle of Fleet Street. The Herald was born in a printers' strike in 1911, when the printers took their case to the public in a four-page sheet (price: one halfpenny). Three months later, when the printers won their demands and returned to their own papers, they gave up the Daily Herald and its 20,000 readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Labor's Herald | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Less for Steel. Acme Steel Co., which recently raised prices on finished steel from $6 to $8 a ton, changed its mind. The company, one of the biggest electro-galvanized sheet producers in the U.S., canceled the increase because no other big manufacturer had followed suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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